The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison
America's First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent
Marguerite Harrison had talked herself out of tight situations before, and so she feigned outrage at her arrest and detention in Chita . She argued that it was not her fault the country had fallen to Soviet Russia. Under interrogation by a GPU official named Bogdonov, Marguerite recounted her trip through Asia and insisted she …
Marguerite made the dubious assertion that her reason for traveling to Urga was to investigate Bolshevik claims that they were not interfering in Mongolia, despite its strategic importance in the region. She journeyed to the Chinese city of Kalgan, where she found few foreigners aside from the British and American consuls and representatives of the …
Leaving the Manchuria warlord Chang Tso-lin, Marguerite Harrison traveled to Peking, where donkey carts, rickshaws, and an occasional automobile kicked up the dust of wide city streets. She spent a month there socializing with Americans, Russians, and Chinese. It now was mid-October 1922 and she knew it was unlikely she would to return to the …
The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison 